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title: When the young king of Easaidh Ruadh came into his kingdom, the firs… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the young king of Easaidh Ruadh came into his kingdom, the first thing he thought of was how he could amuse himself best. Who acts: young king, King, first thing. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 104

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When the young king of Easaidh Ruadh came into his kingdom, the first thing he thought of was how he could amuse himself best.

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**Who acts:** young king, King, first thing · **What happens:** come, think, be · **To what, where:** kingdom, first thing

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young king, King, first thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:8:104
# text = When the young king of Easaidh Ruadh came into his kingdom, the first thing he thought of was how he could amuse himself best.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Easaidh	Easaidh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Ruadh	Ruadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:outer	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the young king of Easaidh |  |  | King's kingdom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | King | the first thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | could · past | the first thing |  |  |  |  | amuse, well *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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